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In August 2017, some Florida Museum scientists and paleontology volunteers went on a fossil hunting trip to Nebraska. Watch as they „jacket“ a complete oreodont skull in the field and prepare it for transport back to the lab. The windy wilds of Nebraska are not ideal for examining fragile fossils, s
Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA: Nicolas and the NSF podcast

Our new friend is a bit of a celebrity! A yellow male Northern Cardinal has been spotted nearby and lots of bird fans have been flocking to see him. He’s been seen a number of times in the Natural Area Teaching Laboratory (NATL) here on UF campus nearby the Museum. We checked with our ornitho
Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA: Nicolas and the NSF podcast

Wow! Looking back at 2021 is quite an adventure. This year brought some challenges, but we also saw some pretty exciting things here at the Florida Museum. We have so much gratitude for our supporters and friends, visitors, staff and online fans for making this year so amazing! Join us in a quick
Mammals collection manager Verity Mathis was a guest on the From Florida podcast

Social distancing during Covid challenged us all to look for fun new ways to share science. Not many people get to visit museums behind the scenes, but technology allowed visitors to Zoom in and spend time with scientists in their collections. Chandra Earl created #collectionsbattle, an informal
Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA: Nicolas and the NSF podcast

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently recognized operations coordinator Kurt Auffenberg as the 2010 recipient of the Thompson Van Hyning Award. The service award, the highest given to museum employees who are not faculty members or students, honors the museum’s first director, Thompson V
Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA: Nicolas and the NSF podcast

Hickory horned devils look fierce, but they’re just the caterpillar stage of a beautiful moth. A few weeks ago, a Florida Museum visitor brought this one to us because she found it in her backyard and wasn’t sure what to do with it. After one of our scientists checked it out, and staff took a few
Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA: Nicolas and the NSF podcast

In many circles, Dragon Con is legendary. Held every year in Atlanta, Dragon Con is a fandom epicenter where people from around the world gather to celebrate their unique and shared passions for pop-culture. The convention organizers actively welcome a broad swath of interests across sci-fi and fant
Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA: Nicolas and the NSF podcast

In an effort to connect with the public about the quickly declining populations of sawfish worldwide, International Sawfish Day was created in partnership with the Sawfish Conservation Society and the European and American Associations of Zoos and Aquariums. Here at the Florida Museum, we host th
Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA: Nicolas and the NSF podcast

Hurricanes are synonymous with the Florida experience. And for some reason, so are flamingos. They’re rare in most parts of our state, so a lone flamingo circling above a local lake this week had the birders squawking. These tall wading birds prefer coastal areas where they sieve tiny invertebrat
Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA: Nicolas and the NSF podcast

Here in Dickinson Hall we’re quite used to seeing odd looking boxes arrive in our lobby. We have over 40 million specimens in our collections, and often receive shipments of new specimens, or returns of loaned specimens. So the sight of several wooded crates stacked in the lobby today (looking so
Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA: Nicolas and the NSF podcast